Saida Grundy is an “incoming Assistant Professor of Sociology and African-American Studies at Boston University”, according to herbioon BU’s African American Studies Department’s website. Among other things, she is an active Twitteruser, having racked up over 57,000 tweets.

It would be beyond a chore to go through everything that she has ever put on Twitter, however, we at SoCawlege went through her timeline for just the past three to four months. And if that was any indication, BU has a problem on their hands.

First, the factual errors:

Um…no? So I guess a history lesson is in order:

First off,Arabs, not “whites” did much of the slave trading in Africa. They also did much of the transportation of those African slaves, an estimated 10-18 million people. Whites didn’t “invent” the idea of transportation, nor did they do this on their own.

There are many more examples of slave transport throughout history besides these. Perhaps if Ms. Grundy took a history class she would know this problem transcends all races, cultures, and geographic locations, and even still continues today with global transportation in the human trafficking industry.

In regards to slavery for generations (which she says is only something white people did as well):Again, Muslims enslaved Indians who they considered “infidels” for centuries, whites and others were traded in theOttoman Empirefor centuries, and it wasn’t just whites who owned black slaves in the Americas either, butother blacks, Native Americans, and of course what we would today call Hispanics in Latin or Central America, which had large slave trades and agricultural industries as well. Generational black slavery in the Americas was not something only done by whites. The notion is absurd.

Slavery is such a long and complex historical topic that this doesn’t end here, but we should move on to other statements –

I’m not up to date on my latest anti-Rand conspiracy theories, but I’ll just point out that he did in fact graduate fromDuke Medical School, and yes, he is aresidentof the state of Kentucky, having moved there after graduation. He doesn’t have a bachelors degree, so perhaps she meant that and got confused in her anti-Paul tweeting?

Second, and more seriously, the crazy rage:

Imagine the condemnation if a white person made the reverse statement, that college aged black males are a “problem population” that black America has to address. Well, for the record, young black males are statistically more likely to commit crimes than young white males. Why are young white males a singled out issue to you Ms. Grundy, as opposed to all young males? If you are going to work at Boston University you have to teach college aged white males eventually no? You probably already have/are working with them. To us, this seems like you are unqualified to grade their work as you clearly demonstrate some kind of special bias against them. They are a “problem population” after all.

That’s fine. But it does show a long-standing inter-generational racial grudge.